![Our Lady of Good Counsel by Pasquale Sarullo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Our_Lady_of_Good_Counsel_by_Pasquale_Sarullo.jpg)
Pasquale Sarullo was a 19th-century
Franciscan
The Franciscans are a group of related Mendicant orders, mendicant Christianity, Christian Catholic religious order, religious orders within the Catholic Church. Founded in 1209 by Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi, these orders include t ...
friar
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the ol ...
,
priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...
and artist. A native of
Ciminna
Ciminna is a Sicilian city in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, located approximately southeast of its capital, Palermo. The city's economy is derived mainly from agriculture and traditional crafts.
The artist and Franciscan priest Pasquale ...
, in the province of
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
, Italy, his work was appreciated by his contemporaries and had an international circulation.
[Maurizio Vitella, 2004, ''Il tesoro della Chiesa Madre di Erice'' Trapani : Il pozzo di Giacobbe, 2004, page 72]
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Religious leaders from the Province of Palermo
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Sicily
Artists from the Province of Palermo
19th-century Italian male artists
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